On an Empty Stomach
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4865-3 (ISBN)
As Scott-Smith shows, over the past century, the humanitarian approach to hunger has redefined food as nutrients and hunger as a medical condition. Aid has become more individualized, medicalized, and rationalized, shaped by modernism in bureaucracy, commerce, and food technology. On an Empty Stomach focuses on the gains and losses that result, examining the complex compromises that arise between efficiency of distribution and quality of care. Scott-Smith concludes that humanitarian groups have developed an approach to the empty stomach that is dependent on compact, commercially produced devices and is often paternalistic and culturally insensitive.
Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. He previously worked as a professional in humanitarian and development organizations. Follow him on X @tomscottsmith.
Introduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger
1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine
2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science
3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions
4. Colonialism and Communal Strength
5. Social Nutrition at the League of Nations
6. Military Feeding during World War II
7. The Medicalization of Hunger and the Postwar Period
8. High Modernism and the Development Decade
9. Low Modernism after Biafra
10. Small-Scale Devices and the Low Modernist Legacy
Conclusion: On an Empty Stomach
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.02.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 13 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Ithaca |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 907 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5017-4865-3 / 1501748653 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-4865-3 / 9781501748653 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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